Artist Biography:
Yelena Lev is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work bridges painting, symbolism, and architecture. Born in Minsk and shaped by her years in the Netherlands and California, she explores transformation, resilience, and spiritual memory through surreal compositions layered with symbolic imagery—floating spheres, ladders, hearts, and fish.
Based in Los Angeles, she is an active member of OCCCA, AzziArt Gallery LA, and other art communities, and has exhibited internationally, including at Primo Piano LivinGallery in Italy, the Baroque Blue residency in Salento, and the upcoming Florence Biennale 2025.
Artist Statement:
My art explores the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the physical and the spiritual. Through Surreal Symbolic Realism, I create dreamlike worlds where hybrid beings, floating fish, and sacred symbols become metaphors for transformation and time. The cracked desert, the skull, and the hourglass speak of fragility and renewal, while golden tones illuminate the mystery within decay. Each painting is a meditation on consciousness and rebirth—a dialogue between life, death, and transcendence. I seek to reveal the inner pulse of existence, where memory and spirit converge, and the human soul finds reflection in the surreal.
